Rare Magic Ebooks- page 19
Ebook by A. F. Bowen -
Price: £2.50£2.50
A complete 12-minute act including a clever coin fold and reproduction, and ending with the coin in a ball of wool and nest of boxes. Mr. Bowen performed this routine hundreds of times, so everything is very well-routined and well-written....
Ebook by Jack Chanin -
Price: £2.50£2.50
Anything by Jack Chanin is always good, and this short routine is no exception. What gives this the “Chanin touch” is that both hands are seen to be truly empty at the start and end of the routine. Very clever handling. 35 illustrations....
Ebook by Chas. C. Eastman -
Price: £3.25£3.25
From 1934 comes a collection of 12 varied effects, ranging from magic with cards, handkerchiefs, a thimble, and one trick Mr. Eastman admits he doesn’t even like- but he’s including it anyway....
Ebook by Arthur Buckley -
Price: £4.00£4.00
Arthur Buckley was a master manipulator of cards, coins, and billiard balls, and this booklet contains 30 effects with cards. There are spelling tricks, transpositions, a four ace routine, card stabbing tricks, a multiple cards to pocket routine, Buckley’s handling of the twenty card trick, and many...
Ebook by Harold Kellock -
Price: £8.00£8.00
During the last twenty or so years of his life, Houdini recorded his life, innermost thoughts and feelings in the form of diaries. After Houdini’s death, Harold Kellock wanted to share Houdini’s life-story with the world. Using the recollections of Houdini’s wife Beatrice, who spent more than thirty...
Ebook by Oudini -
Price: £8.00£8.00
Many of Houdini’s real secrets were published for the first time in this book. The author, an escape artist by the name of “Oudini” seems to have had intimate knowledge of Houdini’s act as many of the secrets he writes were very similar or the exact methods, as far as we can know, that Houdini used ...
Ebook by Clarence Herisko -
Price: £3.25£3.25
Even though there are no magic effects in this book, there are chapters on singing, acting, and comedy that contain much useful information. The sections on anecdotes, monologues, impressions, and pantomime are worth the price of the book....
Ebook by William Lindsay Gresham -
Price: £8.00£8.00
He rose from a lining cutter in a neck-wear factory to become one of the brightest stars in the vaudeville firmament. And he did it with an act of his own invention – escaping mysteriously from leg irons, locked prison cells, packing cases under water, riveted steel boilers – everything that could b...
Ebook by Walter B. Gibson -
Price: £8.00£8.00
Houdini’s Escapes and Magic: Prepared from Houdini’s Private Notebooks and Memoranda with the Assistance of Beatrice Houdini, Widow of Houdini, and Bernard M. L. Ernst, President of the Parent Assembly of the Society of American Magicians....
Ebook by Harry Houdini -
Price: £4.00£4.00
Margery was a very famous medium from Boston who had fooled many people and many experts into believing that she had genuine powers as a medium. A team of psychical investigators decided to conduct investigations into her supernatural powers. Many of the investigators would be seduced by Margery and...
